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I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know.

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Philip Pearlstein

I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature. . . I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.

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Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.

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The effort of painting from life has cost my models a great deal of physical discomfort, and cost me a great deal of money in model fees. . . I have wanted to make the camera obsolete. . . because, in my reading about early 20th century art, I found that the most frequently used argument made in favor of abstraction was that the camera made realist painting obsolete.

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Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

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Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.

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It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

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